Spent most of his life in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, where he was born (in the vicarage) and died (at home,The Chantry). First doctor to study smallpox vaccine. Trained with John Hunter at St George's Hospital, 1770-2. Having heard country lore about how having cowpox can protect a milkmaid from smallpox he carried out unethical research by inoculating a healthy child with lymph from an infected milkmaid. Eventually this method was accepted.
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Edward Jenner
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Edward Jenner bust - Tooting
{On a plaque attached to the front of the plinth:} Edward Jenner MD FRS, 1749...
Jenner statue
{On a red granite panel laid into the front of the stone plinth:} Jenner {On...
St George's Hospital - 2
St George’s Hospital was established on this site in 1733 in a country home b...
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Worshipful Society of Apothecaries
A London livery company. Originally part of the Grocers’ Company, they separated when they were granted their own royal charter in 1617. The Apothecaries Act of 1815 granted them the power to lice...
1 memorial
Lady Alice Maud Bootle-Wilbraham, OBE
Lady District Superintendent in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District Metropolitan Corps, 1899-1922. Honorary Serving Sister in the Order of St John. On its Facebook page this photo is cap...
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
Keith Clifford Hall
Optician. Â Born Cambridge. Â Aged 17 apprenticed to an optician. Â Qualified with night-school study and began fitting contact lenses in 1934. Â Became a world specialist and published an early text ...
1 memorial
Dr Owen Lankester
Chairman of the East End Maternity Hospital, 1902 - 1933.  His obituary in Medical News 6 January 1934 tells us: Born Alfred Owen Lankester, brother to (the later) Sir Ray Lankester. Died at home...
1 memorial
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